2026 Owen B. Toon: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	121	120	113	54	49	559	48036

Owen B. Toon publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Owen B. Toon sits on this spectrum.

41 publications 687+

This scientist: 559 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Owen B. Toon D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Owen B. Toon sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 121 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
1992 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Owen B. Toon is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a concentrated emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's frequent publication venues include Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Communications Earth & Environment.

Main topics of Owen B. Toon's work encompass Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Nuclear Issues and Defense, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Radioactive Contamination and Transfer, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Owen B. Toon include Charles Bardeen, Alan Robock, Yunqian Zhu, Pengfei Yu, and Karen H. Rosenlof.

Some of their recent papers are:

Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection, 2022, Nature Food
Persistent Stratospheric Warming Due to 2019-2020 Australian Wildfire Smoke, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
A regional nuclear conflict would compromise global food security, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
On the stratospheric chemistry of midlatitude wildfire smoke, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Perturbations in stratospheric aerosol evolution due to the water-rich plume of the 2022 Hunga-Tonga eruption, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment

Owen B. Toon has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 1992.

Best Publications

Reduction of Tropical Cloudiness by Soot

A. S. Ackerman;O. B. Toon;D. E. Stevens;A. J. Heymsfield

1765
Citations
Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions

R. P. Turco;O. B. Toon;T. P. Ackerman;J. B. Pollack

1166
Citations
Incorporation of mineralogical composition into models of the radiative properties of mineral aerosol from UV to IR wavelengths

Irina N. Sokolik;Owen B. Toon

1124
Citations
Rapid calculation of radiative heating rates and photodissociation rates in inhomogeneous multiple scattering atmospheres

Owen B. Toon;C. P. McKay;T. P. Ackerman;K. Santhanam

1063
Citations
Direct radiative forcing by anthropogenic airborne mineral aerosols

Irina N. Sokolik;Owen B. Toon

983
Citations
The Impact of humidity above stratiform clouds on indirect aerosol climate forcing

Andrew S. Ackerman;Michael P. Kirkpatrick;David E. Stevens;Owen B. Toon

909
Citations
Smoke and Dust Particles of Meteoric Origin in the Mesosphere and Stratosphere

Donald M. Hunten;Richard P. Turco;Owen B. Toon

738
Citations
Condensation of HNO3 and HCl in the winter polar stratospheres

Owen B. Toon;Patrick Hamill;Richard P. Turco;Joseph Pinto

638
Citations
Algorithms for the calculation of scattering by stratified spheres

Owen B. Toon;T. P. Ackerman

586
Citations
Environmental Perturbations Caused by the Impacts of Asteroids and Comets

Owen B. Toon;Kevin Zahnle;David Morrison;Richard P. Turco

548
Citations
Absorption of visible radiation in atmosphere containing mixtures of absorbing and nonabsorbing particles

Thomas P. Ackerman;Owen B. Toon

536
Citations
A hydrogen-rich early Earth atmosphere

Feng Tian;Owen B. Toon;Alexander A. Pavlov;H. De Sterck

484
Citations
A multidimensional model for aerosols - Description of computational analogs

O. B. Toon;R. P. Turco;D. Westphal;R. Malone

467
Citations
TRANSONIC HYDRODYNAMIC ESCAPE OF HYDROGEN FROM EXTRASOLAR PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES

Feng Tian;Owen B. Toon;Alexander A. Pavlov;H. De Sterck

466
Citations
Physical properties of the particles composing the Martian dust storm of 1971–1972

Owen B. Toon;James B. Pollack;Carl Sagan

458
Citations
The optical constants of several atmospheric aerosol species: Ammonium sulfate, aluminum oxide, and sodium chloride

Owen B. Toon;James B. Pollack;Bishun N. Khare

456
Citations
Optical properties of some terrestrial rocks and glasses.

James B. Pollack;Owen B. Toon;Bishun N. Khare

427
Citations
The astronomical theory of climatic change on Mars

Owen B. Toon;James B. Pollack;William Ward;Joseph A. Burns

419
Citations
Volcanic explosions and climatic change: A theoretical assessment

James B. Pollack;Owen B. Toon;Carl Sagan;Audrey Summers

418
Citations
Stratospheric aerosols: Observation and theory

R. P. Turco;R. C. Whitten;O. B. Toon

416
Citations
Reduction of Tropical Cloudiness by Soot

A. S. Ackerman;O. B. Toon;D. E. Stevens;A. J. Heymsfield

13
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James B. Pollack Ames Research Center

Margaret A. Tolbert University of Colorado Boulder

Richard P. Turco University of California, Los Angeles

Alan Robock Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Michael J. Mills National Center for Atmospheric Research

Christopher P. McKay Ames Research Center

Eric J. Jensen Ames Research Center

Robert C. Whitten Ames Research Center

Azadeh Tabazadeh Independent Scientist / Consultant, US

Andrew S. Ackerman Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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